Young Blood By 18, Courtney Marie Andrews was a music industry vet Courtney Marie Andrews is a freak among us. Where most teenagers have suffered through the agony of reading book reports in English class — sweat forming on the back of necks as they stumble through Twain, Fitzgerald or Salinger — Andrews started writing [...]
Matt Hopper Feature From The Inlander
Fireworks Alaska breeds isolation and oddity. Singer-songwriter Matt Hopper understands this well from his early days as a Last Frontier troubadour. One night Hopper might’ve played a rec center; the next night he would be onstage at some fisherman bar with a bartender named Future. “There aren’t a lot of traditional music venues with a [...]
Top 10 Songs of 2011
Songs! There sure were a lot of them this year, weren’t there? Like, at least 100 of them. Easily. Maybe more. Here are the 10 (+1) best of that bunch. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2010 Revisted
As is the tradition around here at Long Live the Album, I look back at last year’s best album list before tackling the current years incarnation. This is that. Because music is fluid, so why not make revisions, additions, and subtractions? The Original Top 10 Albums of 2010 1. Swim – Caribou 2. Home Acres [...]
Strange Negotiations – David Bazan
Dear economy, you’re bumming David Bazan out. On his latest album Strange Negotiations, Bazan turns his gaze away from God and reserves all his spite for those playing God – the fat cats behind the financial crisis. The tension prevails on songs like “Wolves At The Door” where on pins and needles guitar work is [...]
